MR. KEYES

IB HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS

2009-2010

 

 

ATTENTION IB STUDENTS

YAHOO IS CLOSING MY WEB SITE DOWN LATER THIS YEAR. I HAVE NO DETAILS YET.

 

SUMMER ASSIGNMENT FOR CLASS OF 2010

SUMMER ASSIGNMENT AUTHOR LIST

SENIOR SYLLABUS AND POLICIES FOR CLASS OF 2010

 

 

RESEARCH INFORMATION FOR IB SENIORS AND JUNIORS

IA NUMBERING TEMPLATE –WORD DOCUMENT

IA CHECKLIST

 

Internet Research Sites that may be useful for IA Project

 

The first site you need to look at is here;

http://www.library.yale.edu/ref/err/primsrcs.htm#BIBTOOLS

This will give a brief description of primary sources. Ignore the stuff exclusively for Yale students and read the Primary source information.

 

This Stetson Library site gives a description of the research process and evaluating sources.

Step Four has good information on evaluating sources

http://www.stetson.edu/library/handbook.html#EVALUATING

Turabian Style Documentation Instructions

          Choose the Turabian - Notes/Bibliography link

·         “Notes” style refers to footnotes

·         “Bibliography” refers to Section F: List of Sources

·         Find your type of source and follow the example given

 

Research Web Sites – Five stars is great. One star is time consuming and probably not worth the trouble.

“Premium” Government and Presidential Sites – you should have to pay for these sites . . . well, maybe you do.

            *****Library of Congress

            *****Thomas

            *****America's Library

            *****American Memory

            *****National Archives and Records Administration:

            *****Presidential Libraries

Great Private or Educational Sites

            *****Internet Modern History Sourcebook

            This site has a lot of good primary documents and other historical information.

            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

            *****Internet Women’s History Sourcebook

            Just what the name implies, a lot of primary documents

            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html

 

            ****National Security Archive at George Washington University

            Good declassified documents here, but will take time to find what you want.

            http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

 

            ****Cornell University Digital Library – primary sources

            http://library5.library.cornell.edu/moa/

 

            ****UCSD Libraries

            http://sshl.ucsd.edu/subjects/

 

            *****Cold War International History Project

            http://cwihp.si.edu/

 

            *****Questia

            Subscription based site, but you have a subscription. Good peer reviewed Journals and books.

            http://www.questia.com

 

            ***History Journals Online

            http://www.history-journals.de/

 

            ***Variety of Online Journals – a lot of  subscription based stuff and how to order articles.

            http://www2.tntech.edu/history/journals.html

 

            ***Full Text History Articles

            http://www.usask.ca/history/cjh/

 

            ****Cold War International History – good primary documents on cold war.

            http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home

 

            ****Great early American history resources

            http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/index.html

 

            ***Some interesting old magazines and other sources. Some useful, some not.

            http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/history/fulltext.html

 

            ***A good gateway to multiple topics. Lots of primary source materials.

            WW II resources

            http://www.princeton.edu/~pressman/hiswebs.htm

 

            ***Full Text Sources and documents. A great site for American history

            http://www.usna.edu/Library/History/Histprimfull.htm

 

            ***Primary source documents

            http://www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/primary.html

 

            **Primary source gateway, from USC at Berkeley-many restricted sites here.

            http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySourcesOnTheWeb.html

 

            **There are some primary sources here. You may have to do some searching.

            http://edsitement.neh.gov/websites_all.asp

 

            **A gateway index to women’s studies. A lot of restricted sites but some free documents. You have to search.

            http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-bio.html

 

            **Canadian guide to sources. Look at the Internet sources.

            http://www.iccs-ciec.ca/blackwell.html#electronic

 

            ***World War I primary documents

            http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

 

            ****University of Kansas, Carrie Library. Lots of Primary sources here on American History. A lot of free stuff.

            http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/index.html

 

            ****Major source for European Primary documents. Lots of free stuff.

            http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/index.html

 

            ***Concordia University Libraries. Try the electronic texts and journals.

            http://juno.concordia.ca/collections/subjpages/historynet.html#etexts

 

            **Old links for history sites, maybe something useful.

            http://www.virtualquincy.com/quincy/education/history.html

 

            *****Stetson University Library – tells what is available at the library.

            WEBCAT and many Databases for searching Full Text Journals. Look under indexes and abstracts.

            GREAT IF YOU GO TO STETSON AND USE THEIR CONNECTIONS. YOU ARE WELCOME!

            Below are different Journals available from the Stetson Library

            http://www.stetson.edu/departments/library/

 

JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 0021-8723

In Library: V.51,1964- To date Microfiche: V.73,1986- V.88,2001/2002

Full text is also available through the Library's electronic subscriptions as noted below: Proquest Research 3/1/1988 -To date

 

JOURNAL OF AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION 0021-8731

Full text is available only through the Library's electronic subscriptions listed below: Wilson Databases 1/1/1996-To date

 

AMERICAN HERITAGE 0002-8738

In Library: V.1,1949 - To date

Full text is also available through the Library’s electronic subscriptions as noted below: EbscoHost Academic 5/1/1990 - To date

Proquest Research 9/1/1996 - To date

 

AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 0002-8762

In Library: V.1,1895 - To date Microfilm: V.1,1895 - V.30,1925

Full text is also available through the Library’s electronic subscriptions as noted below:

EbscoHost Academic 2/1/1975 - To date

Proquest Research 2/1/1988 - 12/1/1997

 

AMERICAN HISTORY 1076-8866

Full text is available only through the Library’s electronic subscriptions listed below:

EbscoHost Academic 5/1/1994 - To date

Proquest Research 3/1/1997 - To date

 

AMERICAN HISTORY ILLUSTRATED 0002-8770

Full text is available only through the Library’s electronic subscriptions listed below:

EbscoHost Academic 1/1/1992 - 3/1/1994

 

FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 0015-4113

In Library: V.15,1937 - To date (V.15 bound with FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY)

 

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